What’s Inside the Google Phone

The teardown reveals some interesting "secrets" about the components used in the Google Phone.

For example, the touchscreen is made by Samsung who is also a supplier for Microsoft Zune HD. The Bluetooth and wireless chip found in the Nexus One is from Broadcom and it’s the same chip that is used by Apple for iPod touch.

Live Flight Tracking on Google Maps

Casper is a brilliant mashup that displays movement of incoming and outgoing flights on a Google Map live.
The airplanes are colored based on the name of the airline to which they belong but you can also change their colors based on the altitude at which they are currently flying or the flight type (whether it’s an incoming flight, outgoing or in transit).
You can also click the icon of a moving airplane to see speed and height at which it is flying in real-time.
And if you are checking this service at a time where there isn’t flight traffic at Schipol Airport, just select one of the past days from the drop down to replay the entire flight movement for that day on your computer screen.
Casper is currently tracking flights that are flying in and out of the Amsterdam Airport but we do have similar services for visualizing air traffic at the Zurich Airport and RadarVirtuel that tracks flights for most European countries in almost real-time. GmapTracker tracks incoming flights for US airports of New York, San Francisco, LA, Atlanta, Boston and Chicago.

IE Shortcuts

To do the following	Press this
Go Back to the last page*	Alt+Left Arrow
Go Forward to the next page*	Alt+Right Arrow
Stop the page from loading**	Escape (Esc)
Refresh the page***	F5 or Ctrl+F5
Go to your Homepage	Alt+Home
Give focus to the Address Bar	Alt+D
Add “www.” and “.com” to what you typed in the address bar before navigating****	Ctrl+Enter
Scroll down/up the web page	Spacebar / Shift+Spacebar
Close the window	Alt+F4
Immediately add this site to your favorites	Ctrl+D
Open your favorites in a folder window	Shift+Click on the “Organize Favorites” menu item
Put focus on the Information Bar	Alt+N
Open a link in a new window	Shift+Click
Open the right click ‘context’ menu for the currently selected item	Shift+F10
Change the text size (will be Zoom in IE 7)	Ctrl+Mouse wheel Up/Down
Open links in a new tab in the background	Ctrl+Click
Open links in a new tab in the foreground	Ctrl+Shift+Click
Open a new tab in the foreground	Ctrl+T
Switch between tabs	Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab
Close current tab (or current window when there are no open tabs)	Ctrl+W
Open a new tab in the foreground from the address bar	Alt+Enter
Switch to the n’th tab	Ctrl+n (n can be 1-8)
Switch to the last tab	Ctrl+9
Close other tabs	Ctrl+Alt+F4
Open quick tabs	Ctrl+Q